4GBs in Dell XPS, why not in ThinkPad T60? /same chipset/

[brentpresley]

I think we (as T60 users) should make up a petition to Lenovo to recode the BIOS on the T60 series so that the full 4GB of memory is addressable.

You can petition them, but the business rationale is not there for Lenovo to do significant T60 development work at this point in time. So I really don't think it's going to happen ...

They've done it in the past. Several thinkpads have had BIOS updates which allowed the use of larger memory modules. 600x and T23 are just 2 that come to mind.

[tomh009]

They've done it in the past. Several thinkpads have had BIOS updates which allowed the use of larger memory modules. 600x and T23 are just 2 that come to mind.

It's possible -- I don't know the details on what happened with the 600x and T23, or why. But I do know that if I were making decisions at Lenovo (and I'm not!) I would not be spending my engineering resources on updates for discontinued systems.

[bill bolton]

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